Sleigh



(No Model.)

A. A. LINK.

Sleigh.

No. 236,502. Patented Jan. 11,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

ALLEN A. LINK, OF HUBBARDSTON, MICHIGAN.

SLEIGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,502, dated January11, 1881. Application filed October 11, 1980. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALLEN A. LINK, ofHubbardston, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan, have inventedcertain Improvements in Sleighs and Gutters, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in an improved manner of constructin g therunning-gear of sleighs and cutters, as hereinafter described, but moreparticularly in the combination of a central knee or standard upon therunner and two curved braces connecting the runner with opposite sidesof the standard.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a sleigh constructed on my plan;Fig. 2, a view showing the iron plate used to connect the standard andbraces.

A represents the runner, having a horizontal base or sole with one endcurled upward, as usual.

B represents an upright knee or standard erected firmly upon the runnerat or near its middle. This knee may be of any ordinary or suitableconstruction, and carries at its top a sill or cross-beam, G, to assistin supporting the sleighbody.

G 0 represent two arched or curved Wooden braces arranged on oppositesides of the standard. Each brace has its upper end secured firmly tothe standard at or near the middle, and curves thence upward to theunder side of the sleigh-body and downward away from the standard to theend of the runner, to which it is securely fastened. The body or box ofthe sleigh, or a sill-piece, D, to receive the same, is seated upon thecross-beam G and the upper point of the curved braces. Two transversebeams or blocks, E, are also seated firmly between the braces and thesill or body to assist in sustaining and giving steadiness to thelatter. Bolts a, passed down through the beams E G and the top or crownof the braces, serve to hold the parts firmly together and to keep thebody in place. The better to secure the braces in place, an iron plateof the shape represented in Fig. 2 is secured firmly to the outer sideof the standard and braces, and represented in Fig. l.

If desired, iron rods 0 may be applied, as shown in the drawings, togive additional strength to the structure, but in ordinary cases theyare not necessary.

1 am aware that arched side frames, standards, and arched braces havebeen constructed and arranged in various ways but by the specialcombination and arrangement ofthe central standard and two arched braceson opposite sides of the same, as shown in the drawings,I produce aframewhich is cheap, strong, and pleasing in appearance and otherwisesuperior to other frames.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combinationof the runner, the central standard thereon, the sill or body on thestandard, the two braces, each extending from the runner to the sill,and thence downward to the standard, and the supports E, located betweenthe sill and the outer sides of the braces, whereby the sill is giventwo supports each side of the standard.

2. A sleigh having its body supported on the runners by means of acentral standard or knee, and two arched braces arranged on op positesides of the standard and extending each from the runner to the body,and thence downward to the standard at a point midway of its height.

3. The combination of the runner, standard, sill, two arched braces, andthe rods 0, extended diagonally outward from the runner to the sill.

ALLEN A. LINK.

Witnesses:

G. O. THOMPSON, E. E. HALL.

